166 Quotes by Robert Jackson Bennett

There is no crueler hells then committee work....

These meetings, they're like thieves—they follow you around, wait until you're not looking, and pounce.

In Shara's estimation, lists form one half of the heart of intelligence, the second half being patience. Most espionage work, after all, is a matter of collecting data and categorizing it: who belongs to which group, and why; where are they now, and how are we sure, and do we have someone else in the region; and now that we have cataloged those groups, what threat level should they be categorized under; and so on, and so on, and so on.

They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.

A 6-inch cannon. I've only ever seen those on a Saypuri dreadnought... And it looks like they have, or expect to have, 36 of the damn things.""And they plan to do what with them? Bombard the hills? Fight a war with the squirrels?

For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was ever a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was and there was only ever the butterfly.

Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are -- honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do. -- City of Stairs

Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.

It is quite complicated, being civilised.